Hello Island Lake families! Today was yet another stellar day here in the 18462.  We woke up to mostly cloudy skies (gasp!) with temps in the 60’s but do not fret!  By early afternoon the temps warmed up to the mid 80’s.  What an amazing day to “play camp”!

But wait, I’ve got a last minute weather update.  As I’m about to post this blog, I hear some thunder in the distance.  Could we possibly be getting some rain?  We actually need it for our grass and flowers so it wouldn’t be a bad thing if we had some rain during our 3^rdminor right now.

Tomorrow is our 3^rdand last Lazy Day of the session.  Is time flying by or what?  Before you know it, it will be Saturday and many of you will be here for our big annual Visiting Day. I’ll discuss Visiting Day in much more detail in my blog in a couple of days.  Tomorrow we are going to let our campers sleep in a bit and then have big brunch consisting of eggs, home fries, bacon, sausage, fruit salad, and sticky buns. Brunch will begin at 9:30am for our older kids since they are going out of camp first.  We will take Groups 1 & 2 to Montage Mountain for a fun day at the outdoor water park.  We will take Groups 3 & 4 to Sky Zone for an exciting afternoon of jumping on trampolines.  I’m going to Sky Zone with our older campers and I’m looking forward to getting lots of steps on my Apple Watch with all the jumping I plan on doing.  (Wink wink!)

Now back to today here at ILC,…our avid golfers went out of camp this morning to a local golf course to play 9 holes.  Our mountain bikers returned from their overnight camping trip around 2:30 this afternoon.  They told me that the trip was “GREAT!”  You heard it here first ladies and gents.  The boys had an amazing time on this trip.  It was tough to get more info out of them but they all consistently told me that they had a great time.  They really enjoyed spending lots of time biking and hiking the trails and sleeping out under the stars.

Riddle time! Yesterday’s riddle was:  I have no arms or legs, but keep me warm and I’ll soon walk away.  What am I? An egg!  Congrats to Ben W. for getting this correct.  He’s 3 for 3 recently. Go Ben!  Great job, man!  Here’s today’s riddle, which is a real stumper:  If you throw me out the window, you’ll leave a grieving wife.  But leave me in the middle of the door and you might just save a life.  What am I?  Hmmmm,…any guesses?

Tonight’s evening activity is GROUPS!  Here’s a breakdown of what everyone will be doing.  All groups of girls: Lip Sync Battle down in the theater.  I’m gonna assume that I do not need to explain this evening activity in detail, correct?  On the Boys side:  Groups 1 & 2- a big game of Dodgeball;  Groups 3 & 4-  Casino Night. Just to specify once again, do not fear, as no real money will exchange hands.

Tomorrow’s blog will probably be much shorter, as I’ll only have lazy day trips to report to you about. Well, that and evening activity. I’m going to attempt to take some photos while I’m at Sky Zone, and Matt & Ricki will try to take some pics at Montage Mountain.  No promises as to whether I’ll have photos to share in tomorrow’s blog, but I’ll do my best.

Today’s special feature is SKATEPARK!  Enjoy these photos of campers skateboarding and rollerblading on our ramps and rails. Sorry that some pics do not clearly show our campers’ faces.  I tried to take action shots while also attempting to take pics showing their beautiful facades.  There’s one particular photo of a boy (wearing the “RECKLESS” shirt) spinning around, doing a 360, as he reached the top of the halfpipe.  It was soooo cool to watch in person, but it’s hard to see the amazement of it in a still image.  Sorry!  Another aspect to factor into these photos was the lighting.  I apologize for the darkness in some of the pics, but I did my bestest.  Enjoy and until Lazy Day tomorrow, ILCUTHERE!!!